🪓 Stemming §

= process of reducing a word to its stem by using heuristics

Pro & Con §

• 👍 no context required
• 👎 often imprecise (over/under-stemming) → ✂️ Lemmatization

📖 Example: §

• “universal”, “university” → “univers” (over-stemming)
• “alumni” → “alumni” (under-stemming)